I’m a first-grade teacher. Because I have to talk all day, I keep a water bottle with me. My bottle is metal and not see-through. I usually fill it with lemonade or iced tea, but any time the kids ask me what I’m drinking, I tell them it’s water so they don’t get curious and ask for a taste.
During an activity one day, I’m checking on a few of my students when I hear a boy behind me shout:
Boy: “THIS ISN’T WATER!”
I turn around, and the boy is standing by my desk, drinking from my water bottle.
Me: “[Boy]! Put down my water bottle!”
Boy: “It’s not water! What is it, Miss [My Name]?”
Me: “It’s lemonade. But a better question is, why are you drinking it? You know better than to take other people’s food or drinks. It’s bad manners.”
Boy: “I was curious. It’s really good!”
Kids — gotta love them. I did give the boy a short time-out for breaking the rules and taking something that wasn’t his, and I quietly mentioned the incident to his dad when he picked the boy up after school, but ultimately, this is just one of those things that teachers learn to deal with. All I could really do was wash my bottle that night and start leaving it on a higher shelf that none of the kids can reach.
It may only be a coincidence, but this week there have been two articles in the news about teachers being arrested for drinking alcohol in classrooms. One had a blood alcohol level that was 3 times higher than the level allowed for driving. Wonder how effective their teaching was?
When I was in HS, one of my classmates had one of those canes with the 5 glass vials hidden inside it. He brought it to school every day, filled with Vodka.
The dude from FL Premium Member over 1 year ago
I was gonna say something about wise a$$ kids, BUT most kids are good. So YES
Zykoic over 1 year ago
My high school algebra teacher (Brother Augustine) would drink during the football games. He was a great teacher.
Yakety Sax over 1 year ago
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I’m a first-grade teacher. Because I have to talk all day, I keep a water bottle with me. My bottle is metal and not see-through. I usually fill it with lemonade or iced tea, but any time the kids ask me what I’m drinking, I tell them it’s water so they don’t get curious and ask for a taste.
During an activity one day, I’m checking on a few of my students when I hear a boy behind me shout:
Boy: “THIS ISN’T WATER!”
I turn around, and the boy is standing by my desk, drinking from my water bottle.
Me: “[Boy]! Put down my water bottle!”
Boy: “It’s not water! What is it, Miss [My Name]?”
Me: “It’s lemonade. But a better question is, why are you drinking it? You know better than to take other people’s food or drinks. It’s bad manners.”
Boy: “I was curious. It’s really good!”
Kids — gotta love them. I did give the boy a short time-out for breaking the rules and taking something that wasn’t his, and I quietly mentioned the incident to his dad when he picked the boy up after school, but ultimately, this is just one of those things that teachers learn to deal with. All I could really do was wash my bottle that night and start leaving it on a higher shelf that none of the kids can reach.
Little Caesar over 1 year ago
I’ll be so glad when the powers that be impose their limits on alcohol consumption.
littlejohn Premium Member over 1 year ago
Who do teachers blame when dealing with bad apples?
The Pear-ents
littlejohn Premium Member over 1 year ago
I walked into my son’s English Language classroom and told the teacher that he was setting a bad example.
‘How?’ he asked.
I said, ‘At the bottom of my son’s homework you put ‘A for effort’ when clearly it starts with an E.’
littlejohn Premium Member over 1 year ago
Teacher: tomorrow we will be learning about waste management,
it’s going to be a rubbish lesson.
Prey over 1 year ago
My teachers in the 60´s never (as far as we know) drank, but when I worked in a secondary school in the 90´s it was hard to see why they didn´t!
Doug K over 1 year ago
It depends. What are you drinking?
rshive over 1 year ago
How come it is that Shoe and Cosmo are the only birds who seem to have tail feathers?
ladykat over 1 year ago
Not necessarily, it depends on the students.
locoboilerguy over 1 year ago
Drink before you go to work. It makes more sense.
dbrucepm over 1 year ago
just don’t moonlight as their bus driver
EnlilEnkiEa over 1 year ago
It’s not the kids that do it; it’s the administration.
Bamaboy61 Premium Member over 1 year ago
It may only be a coincidence, but this week there have been two articles in the news about teachers being arrested for drinking alcohol in classrooms. One had a blood alcohol level that was 3 times higher than the level allowed for driving. Wonder how effective their teaching was?
T... over 1 year ago
Very funny, as a former teacher, if only…
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
I guess kids need bad examples, too. That way they don’t have to make all the mistakes personally.
Buckeye67 over 1 year ago
I think that teacher is probably on to something there.
ArcticFox Premium Member over 1 year ago
Teacher’s coping skills are somewhat in decline!
DavidErman over 1 year ago
It makes him an unemployed teacher.
KEA over 1 year ago
school was more fun when the students weren’t there
Billy Yank over 1 year ago
There was just a news article on the web about a teacher fired on the first day of school for showing up drunk.
eced52 over 1 year ago
Saw where an Oklahoma teacher was arrested for being drunk on her first day back to school.
eddi-TBH over 1 year ago
I wonder how many of his students are doing the same to get through the day?
gfredrickson85 over 1 year ago
Reminds me of this story. >
gfredrickson85 over 1 year ago
https://www.cbsnews.Com/atlanta/news/oklahoma-third-grade-teacher-arrested-for-allegedly-being-drunk-at-work/
PaulGoes over 1 year ago
Saw a news story last week about a teacher getting arrested for drinking in the classroom.
goboboyd over 1 year ago
Maybe. But definitely a bad bus driver.
bakana over 1 year ago
When I was in HS, one of my classmates had one of those canes with the 5 glass vials hidden inside it. He brought it to school every day, filled with Vodka.
He drank one vial before each class.